Lil' Pumpkin

Our lil' punkin! There is a pumpkin patch at our church, and I took Katelyn there to get some pictures of her sitting with the pumpkins for the first time. She was so cute! At first, all she wanted to do was pick up the straw and dirt and eat it. I don't know if it was all the pumpkins, the cars going by on the nearby street, or me calling her name a gazillion times and making silly noises to look at the camera, but she had a dazed look on her face the whole time ~ but I got some good pictures none the less. After awhile, she started patting the pumpkins and clapping ~ so sweet!

We are looking forward to Halloween this week! Our great friends Robbie and Tracy and their baby Grayson are coming to visit this weekend. Katelyn is going to be a butterfly and Grayson a monkey. Our friends the Smitty's are dressing their baby, Brody, up as a skunk and we're all going to trick-or-treat together ~ more like dress the babies up and show them off around the neighborhood! It's so fun experiencing all of Katelyn's "first times" this year. I haven't been this excited about Halloween since I was a kid, and thinking of the holidays gives me the anticipation butterflies!

We went to the doctor this morning for Katelyn's 9 month check up (I can't believe it's been 9 months already) and she weighs 20lbs and is 27inches long! 75th percentile for height and weight! Doc says she looks perfect and she was blowing raspberry's at him the whole time this morning and made him laugh! He said she has a very sweet face and a very sweet demeanor...I asked him if he would like to stop by our house between 6-8pm to see if he'd change his mind Lol, but of course he's right!

Some new things with Katelyn this week:
1) 2nd bottom tooth is coming in

2) She says DaDa appropriately; I'm so jealous!

3) She climbs stairs...and we're installing baby gates; fun for the whole family!

4) Favorite veggie is squash and favorite fruit is still bananas

5) Her new favorite game is to play peek-a-boo behind doors and crawl after her, then hide and pop out when she's looking for you. She gets so tickled! Oh, and she'll shut doors now too ~ then cry because she can't get on the other side. Then I open the door and bring her into the room with me, and she'll shut the door again and cry because she wants to be on the other side again...yep, she's all girl! And we love every inch of her!

Hope everyone has a great week, a safe and Happy Halloween and I'll be sure to post costume pics!

Love,

Melissa, Brandon, and Katelyn